You want to know who I really am?

Truth is we are all in pain. We all have different ways of expressing it. Some of us make millions in an attempt to ensure as much security and stability for ourselves and others before the ultimate end. Some of us learn to be the strongest in the room, the one who can fight the rest into submission physically or mentally, to create the most comfort before the ultimate end. Some of us learn to run. To turn away from it all. To hide from the pain. Some of us get angry. Some of us get even. Why do we protect ourselves in these ways? What are we afraid of? What is the ultimate end? Death? Are we hoping to feel the illusion of safety before the inevitable end? Before the beginning of the end? Isn’t this something we all must face? Must we cling so tightly to Life, desperately trying to make things the way we want them to be, fighting each other in the process? Can we breathe and listen and feel and learn?